Five years ago this week… Faultline gave the European Commission (EC) a hard time as it shed some light on its planned 120 million Euros project to extending the reach of WiFi across the EU. Clearly aware of the cynicism surrounding Muni-WiFi projects, all of which had tanked up until that point in time, the funds were to be allocated via vouchers, to ensure that municipalities did not spend the funds elsewhere. The EC was also pushing hard to convert operators by promising that the project would not compete with them by duplicating any of their existing services or networks. Of course, Faultline had many bones to pick, one of which was a proposed unified authentication system spanning the 1,000…